This article reviews the state of the art in social eye gaze for human-robot interaction (HRI). It
establishes three categories of gaze research in HRI, defined by differences in goals and …

In the context of a growing interest in modelling human behavior to increase the robots'
social abilities, this article presents a survey related to socially-aware robot navigation. It …

Due to cognitive and socio-emotional decline and mental diseases, senior citizens,
especially people with dementia (PwD), struggle to interact smoothly with their caregivers …

This paper proposes a model of approach behavior with which a robot can initiate
conversation with people who are walking. We developed the model by learning from the …

When should service staff initiate interaction with a visitor? Neither simply-proactive (eg talk
to everyone in a sight) nor passive (eg wait until being talked to) strategies are desired. This …

On the basis of a video corpus of human-robot-interaction in a museum guide scenario, we
address the challenge how a robot could determine the appropriate moment of opening an …

Robots hold significant promise to assist with providing care to an aging population and to
help overcome increasing caregiver demands. Although a large body of research has …

In a situation where a robot initiates conversation with a person, when is the appropriate
timing and where is an appropriate position from which to say the first greeting word? In this …

When robots serve in urban areas such as shopping malls, they will often be required to
approach people in order to initiate service. This paper presents a technique for human …

An overarching goal of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is creating autonomous, social agents that
help people. Two important challenges, though, are that different people prefer different …